Rug reenforcement



June 5, R923.

O. BRUNKA RUG REENFORCEMENT Filed April 14, 1922k Patented .lune 5, l923.

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OSCAR BRUNKA, OF FORT WAYNE, INDANA.

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Application filed April 14, 1922. Serial No. 552,652.

To all whom it may concern.'

Be it known that l, OSCAR BRUNKA, a citi- Zen of theUnited States of America, and resident of Fort lJVayne, in the'countyr of Allen and' State oflndiana, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Rug Reenforcements, of which the lfollowing is a specification. .c y f This invention relates to improvements in. rug reenforcements and the object thereof is to *providey a device that may be easily attached to rugs at the` margins thereof which will prevent .the corners of the rugs from curling-and will vtend to keep the edges of the rugs straightened so as to lie flat `upon the floor. Another object is rto provide means attachable to a rug that will tend to retain the rug flat upon the floor and prevent it from sliding thereon. A further object is to so construct a device having a metallic strip, that it may be easily sewed to the under side of a rug in a manner as to prevent the threads by which the device is-securedfrom becoming severed by contact with the metallic strip.

The above objects are accomplished by the construction illustrated in the accompanying drawings in which z- Fig. 1 is a plan view of theend portionof a rug to which the present invention is applied, there being parts broken away;

Fig. 2 is a detail view showing a plan of one of the sections of which the metallic strip is composed;

Fig. 3 is a front end elevation of one of the sections;

Fig. i is a longitudinal section on the line 4-4 of Fig. 2;

Fig. 5 is a longitudinal section through the end' of a rug to which the device is applied;

F'g. 6 is a plan view of a strip showing the invention in modified form; and

Fig. 7 is a transverse section on an enlarged scale of the form of the invention shown in Fig. 6.

The characters appearing in the description refer to parts shown in the drawings and designated thereon by corresponding characters:

The invention comprises a metallic stripmade up of a series of sections l which are nested together in successive order. Each section is formed with a central tongue 2 projecting from one end thereof and a recess 3 at its opposite end. On each side of the tongue is formed a pocket l land at the inner end ofthe recess 3 yis formed a pocket 5. at each side of which is a vrearward extension 6 of the plate of which the section is formed. Also, each section has formed in each side thereof a recess 7 approximately midway beif tween its ends. `The stripis made up of a suitable number of sections 1 to form the de sired length; the tonguel 2 of one section be- -ing fitted into the pocket 5 ,ofy the adjacent section, the extensions 6 of which project .nf

into the corresponding pockets fl. .The section 8 at one .end of the strip differs from lthe adjacent section l, there being a recess 9 formed. in its outer end instead of the tongue and' pockets previously described; and the section 10` at the opposite end of the strip is formed with a similar recess 1l at its outer end instead 'of the pocket 5 and extensions 6 that are provided on the adjacent section.

The strip thus formed is encased in a cloth covering 12 that completely envelops the strip, and covers the recesses 7 sofas to form webs 13 thereover. The invention thus formed is attached to the under side of a rug lll at the end thereof so that its outer edge 15 is flush with the end 16 of the rug. The attachment of the device to the rug being made by applying stitches 17- so as to conneet the webs 13 at theI various openings with the rug.

ln the modified form of the invention shown in Figs. 6 and 7 a metallic strip 18 having recesses 19 in its edges is enveloped in a rubber coated fabric casing 20 that extends over the recesses so as to form corresponding webs 2l. This casing may, if so desired7 be vulcanized upon the strip.

Vhen the invention is utilized by attachment to ya rug, as set forth, the corners of the rug will be prevented from curling up and its edges where the strip is applied will he. prevented from buckling up away from the floor. The strip being to some extent pliable readily conforms to ordinary unevennesses in the surface of the floor and tends to hold the rug down in place. When the casing, in which the strip is enveloped, is formed of rubber coated fabric the tendencyl of the rug to slip upon a polished floor is practically obviated.

By forming the strips ywith marginal webbed recesses the strip may be stitched to the rug with its outer edge {ius-h with the corresponding edge of the rug, and when so `attached by the threads which extend i throiigh the Webs, rthe stitches are kept from contact With the metal Which otherwise Would become severedor Worn by the ',inetal.l

What Iclaim is yl; A reenforcenient for rugs and the like, i 'comprising a, metallic strip 4made up otl ay series of sections, each section having a pro-r jecting tongue at one end and' ay pair of extensions at the oppositeA end thereof,' there being apocketon eachvside of the tongue for the. reception of the extensions of the ad# jacent section andc apocket for the reception of the tongue" of the section adjacent its 'i over each of said recesses.l

A reenforcement for rugs, comprising;

oppositeeind, there being also` a recess in each "side of each section; and a fabric cas' ingl enveloping the strip nd `forming a -Web -stripfof inte-rlinked metallic sections,weach having a vrecess, in its jsid'e;v and" a` `fabric casing enveloping thestrip andforming a f liveb over eachfrecess thereofadaptedto be stitched in'fconne'ction *withV a rug so'as to hold the" reenorcerneiit inr iXedz,relationI for a riig, comprising a metallic vstrip having a seriesofi recesses formed' in its edges and a fabric'casing enveloping the ystrip and `forming a webl over `each of the recesses `adaptedto be stitched in connection fwith .the rug so 'as tovhold the reenforcerneiit in fixed relation therewith.

4L. A reenforceinent for a rug, comprising a recessed iiietallic 'strip and an enveloping v cover therefor of rubber coated fabric forming a Web over each recess' thereof relation therewith. n p or y 5. A ife'enforcement for rugs' comprising adapted to haveV stitched connection lWith a rug so asto hold the reenforceinent! fiX'ed ai strip of interl-inkedmetallic sections-and Y a fabric casing envelopingthegstrip adapted to be stitched iii connection'with-the' rnd,

so as to hold 'the 'reeniorceni'ent in'iixed relation therewith. Y v

In testimony whereof I vafix my signa- 

